Tashkent Metro
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The Tashkent Metro (Uzbek: Toshkent metro, Тошкент метро; Russian: Ташкентское метро) is the metro system serving the city of Tashkent, the capital of Uzbekistan. It is the only currently operating subway system in Central Asia. It was the seventh metro to be built in the former USSR, opening in 1977.
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[edit] Lines and stations
| # | Name | Opened | Length | Stations |
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| 1 | Chilonzor Line | 1977 | 16.7 km | 12 |
| 2 | Ozbekiston Line | 1984 | 14.8 km | 11 |
| 3 | Yunusobod Line | 2001 | 7.6 km | 6 |
| Total: | 39.1km | 29 |
[edit] History
Planning for the Tashkent Metro started in 1968, two years after a major earthquake struck the city in 1966. Construction on the first line began in 1972 and it opened on November 6, 1977 with nine stations. This line was extended in 1980, and the second line was added in 1984. The most recent line is the Yunusobod Line, the first section of which opened in 2001. A northern extension of this line is currently under construction, and a fourth line is expected to follow in 2010.
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| Rapid transit in the former Soviet Union |
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| Metros: Moscow • Saint Petersburg • Kiev • Tbilisi • Baku • Kharkiv • Tashkent • Yerevan • Minsk • Nizhny Novgorod • Novosibirsk • Samara • Yekaterinburg • Dnipropetrovsk • Kazan Metrotrams:Volgograd • Kryvyi Rih Cave railroad: New Athos Under construction: Almaty • Omsk • Chelyabinsk • Krasnoyarsk • Donetsk |
